Enable Unity

Unity is not install by default because the package uriparser is not maintained, although it is in aur. However, it works very well. To enable support for unity, you need to use the Arch Building System (see main article ABS).

Then modify the two packages modules/open-vm-tools-modules and system/open-vm-tools available from community and remove --disable-unity from the configure line. Then recompile them, starting with the modules, install with

$ makepkg -s
$ sudo pacman -U --asdeps open-vm-modules-*.pkg.tar.gz

and finally the tools, install with

$ makepkg -s
$ sudo pacman -U open-vm-tools-*.pkg.tar.gz

no --asdeps here.

Reboot, Unity should be enabled once vmware-user is running.

Shared Folders with the Host

Create a new Shared Folder by selecting VM -> Settings... from the VMware Workstation menu. Select the Options tab and then Shared Folder. Check the Always enabled option and create a new share. For Windows XP you can create a share with the Name C and the Host Path C:\.

Then add the following line to you /etc/fstab file (changing uid/gid as needed):